Before OpenClaw, I ran n8n across my clothing store — customer service on WhatsApp, real-time inventory, nightly profit and loss reports generated automatically after closing, stock alerts, and employee attendance tracked through a Mikrotik router that logged when staff connected to WiFi. From those timestamps, n8n calculated working hours and produced payroll figures at the end of each month. No spreadsheets. No manual entry. That was the old way, and it was genuinely powerful. Then I discovered OpenClaw. The difference isn't incremental — it's categorical. I use it now the way Tony Stark uses Jarvis. Not a tool I operate, but an intelligence I work alongside.